Utility functions

1.
(شبك)

شَبَكَهُ, aor. ـِ, (Ḳ, TA,) inf. n. شَبْكٌ; (TA;) andشبّكهُ↓, inf. n. تَشْبِيكٌ; He infixed,(Ḳ, TA,) and inserted,(TA,)one part thereof into another, or parts thereof into others:(Ḳ, TA:) so in the M: (TA:)[but the latter more usually signifies he infixed, and inserted, many parts thereof into others: (see 8, first sentence, respecting its quasipass.:) and hence, he made it reticulated, retiform, like a net; and like a lattice, or trellis, or grating, or cage: and both signify also he made it commingled in its several parts, intricate, complicated, perplexed, or confused; either properly, as when the object is a fabric, or anything made by art, or created; or tropically, as when the object is ideal:] primarily, (TA,)الشَّبْكُ signifies الخَلْطُ[i. e. the mixing together a thing or things]; and [implies]التَّدَاخُلُ[i. e. the entering of one part of a thing into another part, or of parts of a thing or things into other parts; or the being intermixed, or intermingled]. (Ṣ, TA.) Hence,تَشْبِيكُ↓ الأَصَابِعِ, (Ṣ, TA,) meaning The inserting of some of the fingers[i. e. those of one hand]amid the other fingers;(Mṣb, TA;) which it is forbidden to do in prayer: (TA:) one says, [شبّك أَصَابِعَهُ, or]شبّك بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِهِ, He inserted, or interserted, his fingers together[so as to conjoin his two hands]: (MA:) or, as some interpret it, تَشْبِيكُ الأَصَابِعِ which is forbidden in prayer is † the mixing, and entering, into contentions, or altercations.(TA.)[Hence also,]كَانَتِ الرِّيحُ شَبَّكَتْهُمْ↓, a saying of Moḥammad Ibn-Zekereeyà, meaning † The wind had made them like theشَبَكَة[or net], in the interkniting and contraction of the limbs.(Mgh.)

verb form: 1. ― (signification - A2)

شَبَكَهُ عَنْهُ, inf. n. as above, means † He, or it, diverted him, or occupied him so as to divert him, from him, or it.(TA.)

تَشَابَكَا[app. † They became embroiled, each with the other;] quasi-pass. of شَابَكَ بَيْنَهُمَا. (TA.)

8.
(اشتبك)

اشتبك, quasi-pass. of شَبَكَهُ, It had one part thereof infixed,(Ḳ, TA,) and inserted,(TA,)into another, or parts thereof into others; as alsoتشبّك↓, quasi-pass. of شبّكهُ: (Ḳ, TA:) so in the M: but↓ the latter imports muchness, or multiplicity: (TA:)[i. e. it signifies it had many parts thereof infixed, and inserted, into others: and hence, it was reticulated, retiform, like a net; and like a lattice, or trellis, or grating, or cage: and both signify also it was, or became, commingled in its several parts, intricate, complicated, perplexed, or confused; either properly, as when said of a fabric, or anything made by art, or created; or tropically, as when said of what is ideal.] One says, اشتبكت النُّجُومُ, andتشابكت↓, andشَبَّكَت↓, [or the last may be a mistranscription forتشبّكت↓,]The stars were intermixed among themselves, and confused:(TA:)[or were clustered together:] or اِشْتِبَاكُ النُّجُومِ signifies the stars' being numerous, and being intermixed among themselves; from شَبَكَةُ الصَّائِدِ[“the net of the fisherman” or “sportsman”]: (Mgh:) or their being numerous, and[as though]gathered[or clustered]together:(Mṣb:) or, as some say, the appearing of all the stars[which causes them to appear confused]. (TA.) And اشتبكت العُرُوقُThe veins were knit together, commingled, or intricately intermixed or intermingled; syn. اِشْتَجَرَت. (O, TA.) And اشتبك السَّرَابُThe mirage became intermixed, or confused.(TA.) And اشتبك الظَّلَامُ ‡ The darkness became confused.(Ṣ, O, TA.) And اشتكبت الأُمُورُ, andتشابكت↓, andشبّكت↓, (Ḳ, TA,) andتشبّكت↓, (TA,) † The affairs became intricate, complicated, perplexed, or confused.(Ḳ, TA.) And اشتكبت الحَرْبُ بَيْنَهُمْ † The war, or fight, became intricate, and entangled between them; syn. نَشِبَت. (TA in art. نشب.) And اشتبكت أَنْيَابُهُ وَٱخْتَلَفَتْ[His canine teeth locked together, and were dissimilar]; referring to a lion. (O. [See also شَابِكٌ.])اِشْتِبَاكُ الرَّحِمِ means ‡ The close[or intimate]connexion of relationship by birth:(TA:)[and in like manner,تَشَابُكُ↓ الأَرْحَامِsuch connexion of relationships by birth: see an ex. of its part. n., voce مُشْتَبِكٌ.]

شَبَكٌ

Also The teeth of a comb;(O, Ḳ;) because of their nearness together. (TA.)

شُبْكَةٌ

بَيْنَهُمَا شُبْكَةٌ, (Ḳ,) or شُبْكَةٌ نَسَبٍ, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) ‡ Between them two is[a close or an intimate connexion of]relationship by birth:(Ṣ, Ḳ, TA:) and بَيْنَ القَوْمِ شُبْكَةُ نَسَبٍ ‡ Between the people, or party, is an intermingling[of relationship]. (O, TA.)

شَبَكَةٌ

شَبَكَةٌ The شَرَكَة[meaning net]of theصَيَّاد[i. e. fisherman, and fowler or sportsman]; (Ḳ;) the مِصْيَدَة, (Lth, O, TA,) or instrument ofالصَّيْد, (Ṣ,)that is used in the water[i. e. for catching fish] and on the land[i. e. for catching fowls or wild animals]; (Lth, O,* TA;) applied by some peculiarly to the مِصْيَدَةof the water;(TA;) andشُبَّاكٌ↓ signifies the same: (Ḳ:) pl. of the former شِبَاكٌ(Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ) and شَبَكَاتٌ(Mṣb) and [coll. gen. n.]شَبَكٌ↓: (Mṣb, Ḳ:) and the pl. ofشُبَّاكٌ↓ is شَبَابِيكُ(Ḳ.)

word: شَبَكَةٌ ― (signification - A2)

And A certain thing for the head;(Lth, O;)[a small net, for the head, a veil of net-work, in order that the face may not be known.(Golius, on the authority of Meyd.)]

word: شَبَكَةٌ ＝ (dissociation - B1)

Also Wells near together,(Ḳ, TA,)of which the water is near[to the mouths], communicating[app. by filtration]one with another: so accord. to El-Ḳutabee: (TA:) or wells separate, one from another:(M and L in art. مأد:) and, (Ḳ,) or as some say, (TA,)wells(O, Ḳ, TA)that are open to view,(Ḳ, TA,)dug in a rugged place, of the depth of the stature of a man, and twice and thrice that measure, in which the rain-water becomes retained: so called because of their mutual proximity, and confusedness: a single one of them is not called شَبَكَةٌ; for this is only a name for a plural number; but the pl. شِبَاكٌ is applied to aggregates thereof in sundry places:(O, TA:) or شِبَاكٌ, (Ṣ,) or شَبَكَةٌ, (Mṣb,) signifies wells that are numerous and near together in a[tract of]land;(Ṣ, Mṣb;) form اِشْتِبَاكُ النُّجُومِ: (Mṣb:) or, accord. to Aṣ, شَبَكَةٌ signifies wells, or other pits or hollows dug in the ground, that are numerous; and the pl. is شِبَاكٌ. (IDrd, O.)

word: شَبَكَةٌ ― (signification - B2)

And A[tract of]land in which are many wells,(Ḳ, TA,)not tracts that exude water and produce salt, nor such as give growth to plants, or herbage:(TA:) or [the pl.]شِبَاكٌ signifies places, of the earth, that are not such as exude water and produce salt, nor such as give growth to plants, or herbage; such as theشِبَاكof El-Basrah.(Lth, O.)

word: شَبَكَةٌ ― (signification - B3)

And The burrow of the [field-rat called]جُرَذ: (Ḳ, TA:) or the burrows thereof, which are near together: pl. شِبَاكٌ. (TA.)

شِبَاكٌ

شِبَاكٌ, (thus in the ʼEyn and O and L and TA,) orشُبَّاكٌ↓, (thus in the Ḳ, there said to be like زُنَّارٌ,) but [SM says that] the latter is a manifest mistake, (TA,)A thing,(Ḳ, TA,) or anything,(Lth, O,)composed of canes, or reeds,(Ḳ, TA,) or such as canes, or reeds,(Lth, O,)firmly bound together,(Lth, O, TA,)in the manner of the manufacture of mats:(Lth, O, Ḳ, TA:) a single piece whereof is termed شِبَاكَةٌ↓, (Lth, O, TA,) orشُبَّاكَةٌ↓. (So in the Ḳ.)

word: شِبَاكٌ ― (signification - A2)

And likewise, (i. e. شِبَاكٌ, as in the ʼEyn and O and L, but in the Ḳشُبَّاكٌ↓, TA,)What is between the curved pieces of wood of the[vehicles called]مَحَامِل, [pl. of مَحْمِل, q. v., composed]of net-work of thongs (مِنْ تَشْبِيكِ القِدِّ[القِدّ being here used as a coll. gen. n.: see art. قد]). (Ḳ, TA.)

Applied to a دِرْعi. q.مَحْبُوكَةٌ[app. as signifying Woven well, or well and compactly; in which sense this epithet seems to be more properly applicable to a woman's “shift” than to “a coat of mail;” but دِرْعٌ in the former of these senses is seldom, if ever, fem.; and in the latter sense, seldom, if ever, masc.]. (TA.)

word: شُبَّاكٌ ＝ (dissociation - B1)

[It is also a pl., of which the sing., if used, is probably شَابِكٌ↓, accord. to analogy; as a possessive epithet, meaning ذُو شَبَكَةٍ, like لَابِنٌ meaning ذُو لَبَنٍ, &c.:] one says, رَأَيْتُ عَلَى المَآءِ الشُّبَّاكَI saw, upon the water, the fishermen with the nets.(Az, Z, TA.)

[Hence,]أُمُّ النُّجُومِ الشَّوَابِكِ may mean The sun; as being the chief of the [confused] stars: or the milky way;[as being composed of confused stars;]الشَّوَابِك[pl. of الشَّابِكَة] meaningالمُشْتَبِكَة↓. (Ḥam pp. 43 and 44.)

And شَابِكٌ applied to a lion, Having the canine teeth locking together, (مُشْتَبِكُ↓ الأَنْيَابِ, Ḳ, TA, [see 8, near the end, in the CK مُتَشَبِّكُ الاَنْيَابِ,]) dissimilar:(TA:) and شابِكُ الأَنْيَابِ is applied to a camel, (O, TA,) in like manner. (TA.)[Hence,]الشَّابِكُ is one of the names for The lion.(TA.)

word: شَابِكٌ ― (signification - A6)

And one says رَجُلٌ شَابِكُ الرُّمْحِ, meaning A man whom one sees, by reason of his skill, thrusting with the spear[indiscriminately]in all the faces.(O, TA.)